SPARTA, Ky.—Steady rain washed out the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Quaker State 400 on Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway.

The race was rescheduled for noon ET Sunday. TNT will telecast the race, scheduled for 267 laps (400 miles).

The National Weather Service predicts a 60 percent chance of rain Sunday, and NASCAR officials will hope that the scattered storms miss the track instead of interrupting track-drying efforts as they did Saturday night. If NASCAR cannot get the race in Sunday, it likely would try again Monday.

For the teams, the likelihood of running a full race in the daytime as opposed to night will impact how they set up the cars because the cars handle differently depending on track temperature.

Teams won’t be allowed to make any significant adjustments to the car prior to the race because they already have been inspected.

NASCAR has designated a competition caution for lap 30 so teams can check tire wear and make adjustments.

“It will be a little variable,” said Paul Wolfe, crew chief for Cup champion Brad Keselowski. “We did all of our practice during the day. We know kind of what we had there. Obviously we don’t have a deep notebook on here but having raced here twice, we know what our car did from the day practices into the night and adjusted for that.

“I don’t think it will be drastic. But definitely the track will be green the first run and guys will definitely expect to be making some big adjustments on that first pit stop.”

The extra day on the road likely won’t impact the teams much other than missing a valuable Sunday with their families. Their cars for Daytona next Saturday likely are already set up—those are different cars than what they would race at Kentucky.

“This is what we all love to do,” Wolfe said. “I’d rather be doing this than a normal day job. Our Daytona cars are set and we are prepared for this.”

Having to postpone its marquee event marked another rough day for track officials at the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway oval, which is nestled within an hour’s drive of Cincinnati, Louisville and Lexington.

The founders of the racetrack, completed in 2000, had hoped to get a Sprint Cup race after several successful Nationwide and truck events.

But as NASCAR balked, they sued in hopes of getting a race. After losing several rounds in court, the founders sold the track to Bruton Smith’s Speedway Motorsports Inc.

SMI moved a race from Atlanta Motor Speedway to Kentucky for the 2011 season and increased the seating capacity from 69,000 to 107,000.

With a sellout crowd for the inaugural race, the night turned into a traffic nightmare for many with backups of 20 miles and approximately 10,000 people who never even made it to the race.

An improved traffic plan fueled by millions of dollars to infrastructure improvements—as well as a smaller crowd—led to no major traffic issues in 2012, but the weekend featured brutally hot conditions.